
Bronx Museum Teen Council
Njideka Akunyili Crosby moved from Nigeria to the United States as a teenager and developed a photorealist painting practice that addresses the cultural duality of her experience - scenes of domestic life constructed from collaged Nigerian magazine imagery overlaid with paint - in works of enormous technical complexity. Her The Beautyful Ones series draws its title from Ayi Kwei Armah's Ghanaian novel. A painting from 2012 sold for $3.1 million at Christie's in 2017, an auction record for a work by a living Nigerian artist.
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Acrylic paint — pigment suspended in an acrylic polymer emulsion — dries quickly to a water-resistant finish and can be thinned with water or medium. Introduced commercially in the 1950s, it became the dominant alternative to oil paint for contemporary painters working in flat color, mixed media, and large-scale formats.
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